Audiocassettes have gone the way of the slide rule. Considering all the cassettes I have had tangle up over the years, I can't say that I'll miss them.
But our 2001 Impala has a cassette player, not a CD player. So I'm glad I still have some cassettes around.
Recently I was preparing for a drive and looked around for a cassette to play in the car. I came across an old copy of Hooked on Classics that we had purchased in the early 1980s, back before we came to Oxford.
Here were medleys of some of the most famous snippets of Western music, skillfully blended together and set to a disco beat. (As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.) Take the Flight of the Bumblebee, add the opening of Mozart's 40th, a little Rhapsody in Blue, some Beethoven's 5th and 9th, some Lone Ranger music, the Hallelujah Chorus.... With such great ingredients, you can't miss. Start with the Wedding March. Put in the Brahms Lollaby, Peer Gynt, some Wagner Kill Da Wabbit music---why not?
I hadn't heard any of these arrangements in years, but it is still true that when one of these bits of music pops into...
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